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Linguistic and semantic factors in government e-petitions: A comparison between the United Kingdom and the United States of America
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Elsevier, 2020.
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Abstract
- Many legislators around the word are offering the use of web based e-petitioning platforms to allow their electorate to influence government policy and action. A popular e-petition can gain much coverage, both in traditional media and social media. The task then becomes how to understand what features may make an e-petition popular and hence, potentially influential. One area of investigation is the linguistic and topical content of the supporting e-petition text. This study takes an existing methodology previously applied to the American government's e-petition platform and replicates the study for the United Kingdom's equivalent platform. This allows an insight into not only the United Kingdom's e-petition process but also a comparison with a similar platform. We find that when assessing an e-petition's popularity, the control variables are significant in both countries, e-petitions in the United Kingdom are more popular if some named entities are used in the text, and that topics are commonly more influential in America.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0740624X
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.core.ac.uk....f91eecda05aa596dd88d1cd3d97d7032